Wheel for vehicles.



Patented May 4, 1909.

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WHEEL EOE VEHICLES.

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WHEEL POR VEHICLES. APPLICATION FILED JA. 27, 1909. 92() 603, Patented May 4, 1909. 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2'.

EDOUR-DETIENNE MICHELIN, OF CLERMONT-FERRAND, FRANCE.

WHEEL FOR VEHICLES.

Application filed January 27, 1909. Serial No. 474,577.

4Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 4. i909; l

To all whom it may concern:

Be it. known that I, EDOUARD ETIENNE' MICHELN, citizen of the Republic of France,

and resident of Rue. du Nord, Clermont# Ferrand, Puy-de-Dme, in the said Republic, manufacturer, have invented new and useful Improvements in Wheels for Vehicles,

of whichthe following is a speciiication.

It is impossibleto employ ordinaryA wheels with several pneumatic tires for very heav vehicles, because the total-widthof surface g bearing on the road being considerable, it

follows that the tires bear unequally owing to the camber of the road 5. and moreover if one of the tires encounters a small obstacle the others are lifted more or less from contact with the road. For these reasons one of the tives may be subjected to a load far in excess of that for which it is constructed and the tires are thus liable to wear ou't quickly. Moreover heavyveh'icles when passing over culverts and the like are subject lto shocl-:s of considerable-magnitude which wear out tires'of small Widthzby causing them to pass the limit of their elasticity. According to this invention these difiiculties are avoidedv bysupporting the rim carrying the multiple tires y a large pneumatictire orcusliion owing to which tlieouter rim may assume a considerable inclination to the axle of the Wheel and can tlius conform to the camber cf the. road. The cushio'n also relieves the.V

tires in contact with the road by yielding and absorbing the large oscillations referred to..

Figures 1 .and 2 ofthe drawings are cross sections of parts of Wheels made according.,

to `this invention and Fig. 3 isa side elevation of a complete wheel. e y

c indicates the multiple pneumatic tires,

three for example, detachably secured to the rim t; c is a large pneumatic tire interposed between the rim and the wheel and foi-ined with two half coversl 'which can be readily detached as shown in 1 or as shown at Fig. 2it maybe aj tire of'usual form von which the rim 'b is .mounted before iniatioii and which on inflation holds this rim by fitting v`into acircular channel d c f thereon.Iv

' The cushion cniayA if preferred be carried by a detachable rim 'g formed of a part fixed te the 'wc'cden-felly 'and a removable part secured by clamps Zuf- A'ny well known or approved form of detachable rim may be used in place of or in conjunction witli`the rim b. l

Having thus described the nature'of my said invention and the best means I know of carrying the same into practical effect, I'

claim: s

In combination, a vvehicle wheel, a rim of larger diameter than the latter, a multipli` pneumatic tire on said rim, and an inner pneumatic 'tire between said rim and .the wheel.v

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have signed my name in lpresence of two witnesses, this thirtyfirst day of December 1908.

EDOUARD ETIENNE MICHELIN. VVitnesSes:

Leiris CnAnLEr, JOSEPH VAN' DAM. 

